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Every time I read about this, I instantly wonder whether this means that I can turn my crappy consumer camera into a spy device.

We have windows that span about fifty feet in the office, and a hotel across the street; if someone left the complimentary bible in the window open to a random page, could I combine multiple exposures into an image detailed enough to read the text?



Not using that technique, since it requires that you measure the phase of the incoming light. But there are some super-resolution techniques that might double a noisy digital sensor's performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution Try the ClearCam iPhone app.


Kind of a bummer that ClearCam is apparently abandon-ware now, yet still up in the store for $2.


Oh, maybe HD Camera? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hd-camera-13mega/id455960193?... I don't have an iPhone so I can't try it :(




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